What's Health Got to Do with It?

Delivering hope: An advent of healing

In a season that inspires hope, we unwrap stories of devotion — from a trailblazing children’s hospital to a patient encounter that shaped the career of a transplant nurse and inspired her advocacy work.

Beating the odds: Patients, perspective and possibility

On this week’s program, an Alzheimer’s diagnosis met with courage, curiosity and determination to change the “D” word. Then, after competing in multiple marathons and ironmans, a Navy veteran faces his toughest challenger yet — and every second counts.

Infant botulism; listeria outbreak; hormone therapy warnings

Dr. Joe Sirven and his panel of medical experts discuss this month's biggest health headlines, from a deadly listeria outbreak to the FDA’s removal of "black box" warnings on hormone replacement therapies.

Gratitude for the mind: Celebrating what makes us human

How music can reshape the brain in ways words cannot, and how art helped a Parkinson's patient steady her hands and connect to healing.

Gratitude and grace: Together in spirit

When illness tests the body, can imagination heal the spirit? We discover a place where science connects to the soul. Then, surprising ways isolation affects the brain, and how gratitude and connection can restore it.